Click on the link below to download Alan Thomas’s AQA A ENGA3 / ENGA4 Language Change within Language Explorations Guide.

Language Change within Language Explorations Guide.docx

This 110-page editable guide, written by a very experienced A Level English Language teacher, should prove helpful. It’s in Word (.docx) format, if you can only open Word (.doc) format files use the link below to convert it.

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We’ve also included a PDF version to help with printing.

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Assessment of Presentations in Lang A2.doc

Associated Resources

• Language Interventions Student Guide Part 1 English Language AQA A ENGA4
• ENGA4 Language Intervention Guide Part 1.doc
• ENGA4 Language Intervention Guide Part 2.doc

Part Two

Developing Form and Style

Once you’ve settled on your argument and established what you’re going to say, you need to work out how you’re going to say it, where you’re going to say it and what order to put it all in. Most of these areas are interlinked, so the style you write in will have quite a lot to do with the form you are adopting.

• If...

Associated Resources

• Language Interventions Student Guide Part 2 English Language AQA A ENGA4
• ENGA4 Language Intervention Guide Part 1.doc
• ENGA4 Language Intervention Guide Part 2.doc

This is a student guide to the AQA A spec coursework element, the ‘Language Intervention’. This is one part of your A2 coursework and makes up half of the total marks for the ENGA4 unit (i.e. 20% of your total marks at A2 or 10% of you’re A level).

The AQA specification describes the unit as follows:

“The ‘Language Intervention’ coursework task is...

Associated Resources

• Transcripts Pack
• Guide to Conversation Analysis.doc

This guide is intended to support teachers preparing students for tasks involving the analysis of transcribed conversation at AS and A2 level, although teachers of the new GCSE unit on Spoken Language may also find some helpful information here, especially in the “Key Issues” section.  Just don’t get carried away with the technical terms or theories at this level!

The advice and information given here is relevant to many specifications, both Language courses and...

Associated Resources

• A Guide to Conversational Analysis

Introduction

This collection of transcripts has been produced with A Level Language and combined Language and Literature teaching in mind, although some of the transcripts may also be suitable for use with the new Spoken Language GCSE unit.

• Never Mind The Buzzcocks.doc
• David Beckham and Jonathan Ross.doc
• Paxman and Cooper on Taxes.doc
• Husband and Wife - Nan and her Fruit Pies.doc
• Student and Teacher.doc
• Jeremy Kyle.doc
• Hugh F-W - Beer Batter.doc
• Loose Women.doc
• QI Daniel Radcliffe.doc...[ read full article ] »
  

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Prompts for Child Language Data Analysis.doc

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Language A2 - Improving Your Investigation.doc

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Eng Lang Variation Research Task.doc

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Eng Lang Simultaneous Speech Worksheet.doc

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Eng Lang Post-AS Discussion Qs.doc

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Eng Lang Investigation Planner and Agreement.doc

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Eng Lang Investigation Checklist.doc

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Eng Lang Face Theory Handout.doc

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Eng Lang Child Language Revision Pack.doc

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Eng Lang A2 The Grammatical Framework and Textual Analysis.doc

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Child Lang Revision Groupwork.doc

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Assessment of Presentations in Lang A2.doc

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Assessment Objectives for English Language A2 AQA A.doc

Language Investigations

This is a guide to preparing students for the various ‘Investigations in English Language’ units that form part of many A Level English Language courses. It has been written to cover the A2 coursework requirements for the following examination boards:

• The basic requirements for the investigation are broadly similar across all boards but where needed, specific advice for a particular exam board’s specification is shown and clearly identified.

Assessment Focus (Assessment...

Click on the link below to download a Word version of Beth Kemp’s Scheme of Work for AQA A2 Level Language Spec A 2010.

AQA A2 Lang A Scheme of Work Beth Kemp.doc